Additives for corals

[smokinggotme]

I have had my salt water tank for about 3 years now, and I have never added any additives. Im been looking at some of them being that I've been interested in giving my corals steriods (additives). As there are many options, even on this site, anyhow I guess my question is: do any of you have any suggestions of what I should add? My corals include lavender (purple) mushrooms, cult coral, finger coral, yellow gagornian, potatoe chip coral(not sure on the real name, my budy who gave it to me called it that), orange zoos (I think thats what it is anyways, another one my budy gave me), oh and some green recordia, have some fan worms and sponges as well but that doesnt fall in this catagory or does it? As for fish I have marroon clown, yellow tang, fire shrimp, I had an arrow crab, and an orange linkia which are both no longer. I think my bristle worms ate my orange linkia, is that common? I saw them actually eating it, I tried creating current with magnets ( have a sereous algae issue, but 5.26 W/G will do that though) to prevent the worms from continueing their feast. Anyhow that only worked for a short bit, as I couldnt sit there and babysit, I eventually found half of his body. Thanks for any input you guys may have. Much appreciation

 

[darknes]

Hello, and welcome!
I really doubt the bristle worms killed your linkia. It was probably already dying, and they were feeding on it. Linkia's are not a good specimen for a reef tank, as they usually don't last long.
There are some predatory bristle worms, but I think they're pretty rare.
I don't recommend adding anything to the tank unless you can test for it. As far as the corals you have, I'd say water changes are going to be the best you can do. There are suppliments that serious reefers will add to their sps tanks (Zeovit), but it's very expensive.

 

[breineach1]

You know, I've been wondering about the same thing- re: feeding my corals. I would like to get better growth of my zoas (the shrooms, xenia & palys do just fine), but there's so many products out there it's hard to know what's "best". That would be a good sticky thread- what is best to feed fish/inverts/corals A to Z, especially since the site sells so many different products.
As for additives, I do a water change weekly which replaces all lost trace elements, as far as I've tested for, except calcium so I add that & an alkalinity buffer just in case.

 

[appaloosa1]

i've heard reef vital dna works really good as an all in one kind of supplement. Personally, I use seachem additives, but maybe thats just because i get free samples!